Friday, February 26, 2010

Up And Down Simultaneously

by digby

Oh the irony. The day after Sally Quinn gets demoted to mere cheeto-muncher, it's revealed that Desiree Rogers is stepping down from her job as White house Social Secretary. How sweet it would have been for the Queen Bee if she'd only held back from commenting in print on her family's dirty laundry for one short week.

Here's how Mike Viqueira on MSNBC characterized the resignation:

We are confirming that Desire Rogers is stepping down. Of course she had been a controversial figure ever since that first state dinner the week of Thanksgiving, you remember it was the Indian prime minister who was here and it was crashed by not only the Salahis but a third uninvited guest. There were congressional hearings called, the White House refused to send Ms Rogers up to Capitol Hill to testify, claiming that she was simply a White House adviser, not a White house official who was eligible to testify before congress.

She received considerable criticism in the press. There was unfavorable talk about what was termed her "Hollywood image" that she was too high powered to have this role, that she could perhaps overshadow the first lady.

In case you missed the story about Rogers being above herself, here's a pretty good rundown. As far as I can tell, the only one in the press who raised questions about her "Hollywood image" was Quinn. How fitting it is that the day Quinn's power is proven to all the world comes on the day after she was ignominiously demoted by her own paper for being a shallow twit.

Meanwhile, it's hard to feel too sorry for Rogers who said that after a year in the White House she now feels she can "take advantage" of opportunities in the corporate world. I'll just bet.